Book reviews
Check out the latest reviews of University of Minnesota Press books.
- Leader Appraising, Stargazing, and Pop Culture-Crazing
- In The Six-Point Inspection, Zócalo takes a quick look at new books that are changing the way we see our world. Includes Mark Dery's I MUST NOT THINK BAD THOUGHTS.
- Lean Out with Tara Henley: Conversation with Catherine Liu
- In our conversation today on the podcast, Liu touches on everything from mommy bloggers to land acknowledgements — and argues that we must insist on viewing society’s current struggles through an economic lens.
- Learning Curve: Making students feel like criminals
- Author Kathleen Nolan (Police in the Hallways): Police in schools can make it feel like prison .
- Learning to Live While Dying: Bruce Kramer talks about his upcoming book 'We know How This Ends'
- Interview with Bruce Kramer, author of 'We Know How This Ends', with Next Avenue
- Left of Black: Alondra Nelson
- Alondra Nelson, author of BODY AND SOUL: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination, joins Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal on Left of Black.
- Left of Black: The death of Trayvon Martin and the "fictions" of black leadership
- Mark Anthony Neal, host of Left of Black, interviews Erica Edwards, author of CHARISMA: THE FICTIONS OF BLACK LEADERSHIP.
- Leif the Lucky – A gorgeously illustrated bio on Leif Erikson
- Carla Sinclair from Boing Boing review's Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire's 'Leif the Lucky'
- Leif the Lucky and the pleasure of long books.
- "I was delighted to see that the University of MinnesotaPress has reprinted 1941 book, Lief the Lucky, by Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire. A big gorgeous book that tells the Norse folktale of Erik the Red and his son Leif the Lucky, and how they discovered Greenland and North America."
- Leo Weekly interviews Kelly Cogswell
- The author of EATING FIRE on activism, the Lesbian Avengers, and writing a memoir.
- Leonardo: Alien Phenomenology
- Leonardo reviews Ian Bogost's latest: "Well, the things they say! Do we attend enough to things? Or to change the emphasis, do we pay enough attention to THINGS? No, it still doesn’t really work."